A girl looks at the moon through a telescope in Caracas, Venezuela, on Sunday, May 15, 2022. The best day to spot five planets, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars, lined up in the night sky is Tuesday, March 28, 2023, right after sunset.
The best day to catch the whole group is Tuesday. You’ll want to look to the western horizon right after sunset, said NASA astronomer Bill Cooke.
Five planets line up with Moon in night sky - BBC News
Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Mars, and the Moon aligned in an arc across the evening sky on Monday, with some visible to the naked eye.
The best shot at spotting the planets on Monday was away from any bright city lights, somewhere with a clear, unobstructed view.
Why is Mercury so weird? Blame the giant outer planets. | Space
Mercury is a planet that just doesn't make sense. It's incredibly small yet hosts a relatively massive core. Mercury is so strange that astronomers have not been able to explain its properties with simulations of the solar system's formation.
Mercury is by far the smallest planet in the solar system , with only around 5.5% of both the mass and volume of Earth . Despite that diminutiveness, Mercury manages to be the second-densest planet in the solar system, with a whopping 98% the density of Earth.
Planets Beyond Our Solar System: What Do Exoplanets Look Like?
By European Space Agency (ESA) March 27, 2023 Artist impression of an exoplanet system. Credit: ESA
Transiting exoplanets are detected as they pass in front of – transit – their host star, causing a dip in the starlight as seen from the observer's viewpoint. The transit repeats, with the time interval depending on the time it takes the exoplanet to orbit its star.
Webb Measures the Temperature of a TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanet – Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond ...
An international team of researchers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to measure the temperature of the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b.
This is the first detection of any form of light emitted by an exoplanet as small and as cool as the rocky planets in our own solar system.
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Five planets will line up below the crescent moon in a rare "planetary parade" most clearly visible in Massachusett… https://t.co/obk5dJ2mwi BostonGlobe (from Boston, MA) Mon Mar 27 22:22:08 +0000 2023
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LOOK UP! 🔠#Mercury, #Jupiter, #Venus, #Uranus and #Mars will be lining up this week. (Courtesy: NASA) Where and wh… https://t.co/fPB5mo1bBZ News12NJ (from New Jersey) Mon Mar 27 18:00:01 +0000 2023
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